Improvement in bottle-stoppers and stopper-fasteners



I F. J. SEYBOLD. Bottle-Stopper and Stopper-Fastener.

No. 206.492.v Patented July 30,1878.

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WKYMQWSS 11 M N, PETERS. PHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTbN D C UNITEDSTATESPATENT OFFIo FREDERICK J. SEYBOLD, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLE-STOPPERS AND STOPPER-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 206,492, dated July 30,1878; application filed May 22, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK J. SEYBoLD, of the city of St. Louis, inthe county of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Bottle-Stoppers, which improvement is fully setforth in the following specification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings.

Myinvention pertains to that class of articles denominated in a generalway bottle-stoppers, and more especially that class of bottlestoppersemploying a spherical or cylindrical shaped stopple, having pintles anda filling and discharging aperture, the stopple being secured on themouth of a bottle with or without a gasket or packing resting betweenthe stopple and the mouth of the bottle.

Figure 1 is a front view of my stopper on a bottle-mouth. Fig. 2 is asection of a pintle. Fig.3 is a side view of a modification of a pintlewith the part of a stopple attached. Fig. 4 is a side view. Fig. 5 is atop view of the stopple. Fig. 6 is a vertical section of the stopple.Fig. 7 is a vertical section of the gasket. Fig. 8 is an illustrativefigure. Fig. 9 is a front view of my stopper. Fig. 10 is a side view ofmy stopper. Fig. 11 is a side view of the gasket. Fig. 12 is theneck-wire. Fig. 13 is the pintle, part of the binding-wire, and part ofthe operating-lever. Fig. 14 is the operating-lever. Fig. 15 is amodification of the gasket.

A is the bottle-neck. B is a gasket, and M is a flange on the same. N isan aperture or cut in the same, in which the pintle It rests. (l is aspherical stopple. D is the filling and discharging passage. R is apintle. E is a groove on the same. F is a groove on the same, G is apintle, having a shoulder instead of a groove on the same. P is aneck-wire, having on its opposite sides outward detours U. V aretwisted-together ends of the same. U are bends on the same. 0 are thetyingwires, for holding the stopple in place. Z and Y are bends ordepressions in the ends of the bail-lever IV. X is a slot in the end ofthe pintle R.

On each pintle R are two grooves, for the purpose of adjusting thestopple as it becomes loosened by wear, one of the grooves being deeperthan the other one.

The wire 0, when the stopple is first put together, is placed in thedeeper groove Etightly, and when it loosens by wear the stopper ispushed in until the binding-wires O can be sprung into the shallowergroove F, by which means it is tightened.

The ends of the bail-lever W are conformed in shape to these grooves,and rest in the same, with the tying-wire O resting over the ends of thelever W, holding it in place, as seen in Figs. 2 and 13. The standard ofthe lever resting in the slot in the end of the pintle enables the leverto turn the pintle and stopple.

The bend U affords lateral support to the ends of the binding-wires O,preventing them from sliding sidewise around the bottle.

The ends of the binding-wires 0 being attached to the neck-wire onopposite sides of the bottle, instead of at one point directly under thepintle, exercise the office of guys or braces, and prevent the stopperfrom being rolled off the bottle when it is meant to be rotated; alsoprevent its being twisted around in its seat.

The filling and discharging passage of this stopple consists in a cutinto the circumference of the stopple of such conformation that one endof the out being rotated into a line with the aperture into thebottle-neck, the liquid finds its way out through this out; though, ifdesired, instead of a cut into the circumference, an aperture throughthe body of the stopple may be made, which, however, alone and initself, I do not claim. In either case, when this aperture or the cut isemployed, the turning of the same across the mouth of the bottle closesthe same.

The gasket is composed of flexible or other material, and has a flange011 the same, which rests on the top of the bottle to prevent the gasketfrom turning, and has extending upward from this flange a wall reachingup to such a height as to entirely cover one end of the aperture in thestopper when the perforation is used, so that the liquid may pass out inbut one direction as the stopple rotates to an open position.

If this gasket-wall were short, as shown by the full line in Fig. 8, theliquid would fly out in two directions as the stopper was rotated in anopen position, as shown in Fig. 8; but

the gasket being made to the height of the dotted line in Fig. 8, and asshown by the full line in Fig. 4 and other figures, the liquid can onlypass out of the aperture in one and the desired direction.

An aperture may be made in the gasket, as shown at N, Fig. 7, throughwhich the pintle may be forced, or a cut may be made, as shown at N,Fig. 15,whichever may be desired, either mode allowing the wall of thegasket to reach high enough to govern the flow of the liquid, as beforementioned.

In place of the grooves E and F, of different depths, on the pintle R,as shown in Figs. 2, &c., a simple shoulder may be made, as shown inFig. 3, by which means adjustability of the stopple is obtained, in thislatter case the binding-wire being placed at first, when everything isnew, on the portion of the pintle of smallest diameter, and when thestopple loosens from wear or otherwise the bindingwire is then placed onthe portion of the pintle of greater diameter.

The tyin g-wires O are constructed with a simple hook or protuberancewhere they are attached to the neck-wire, and have a single intermediatecoil, a, where they pass around the pintle.

When the stopple is made of flexible material the gasket can bedispensed with in certain cases, if so desired.

When desired, the stopple can be constructed on the cam principle, orattached to the bottle with the cam action, so that when turned to aclosed position the stopple tightens downward onto the bottle or on thegasket. This cam principle can be arrived at either by placing thecentral longitudinal axis of the pintles of the stopple to one side ofthe central longitudinal axis of the stopple, or by'raising aprotuberance on that side of the pintle that will be uppermost when thestopplc is closed, or by cutting a groove on that side of the pintlethat will be uppermost when the stopple is open, or by making thegrooves now out in the pintle for adjustability shallower at the pointthat will be uppermost when the stopple is closed than at other points,or in any other suitable way desired.

What I claim as new, as my invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-

1. A spherical stopper having pintles, and having a filling anddischarging passage, which consists of a recess in one side of thestopple, cut-tin g away a portion of the circumference, as and forthepurpose set forth.

2. The pintlesl each pintle bein gconstructed with two or more groovescut on the circumference of the same, the grooves being of differentdepths for the purpose of giving adjustability to the pintle as regardstightness in binding the same to the mouth of a receptacle, as and forthe purpose set forth.

3. The bail-lever W, constructed with the grooves or indentations Y andZ, as and for the purpose set forth.

4. The binding-wire O, constructed with a bend or protuberance at eachend, and with an intermediate coil where the wire attaches to thepintle, as and for the purpose set forth.

5. The gasket B, constructed with walls of sufficient height to entirelycover one end of the filling and discharging aperture, so as to preventthe liquid from passing out of the descending end of the aperture, thegasket having the opening N and the flange M, as and for the purpose setforth.

6. The gasket B, constructed with its side walls reaching up to the topof the pintles, or thereabout, but not so high as to the top of thesphere or stopper, and with the opening N, in combination with a pintledstopper, having the passage 1) cut into the circumference of the same,as and for the purpose set forth.

7. A stopper having pintles, in combination with the binding-wires O,constructed with a simple hook or protuberance where they are attachedto the neck-wire, and having a coil where they pass around the pintle,and with a neclcwire, as and for the purpose set forth.

8. The combination of a stopper having pintles, binding-wires O,constructed with a simple hook or protuberance where they are attachedto the neck-wire, and having a coil where they pass around the pintle, aneckwire having detours, and bail-lever V, as and for the purpose setforth. 9. A pintled stopper attached operatively to a bottle by means ofneck-fastenings, the end bearings of each fastening being on opposite,or nearly opposite, sides of the bottleneck at points on the bottleneckninety degrees, or thercabout, from a vertical line through thepintle-s, as and for the purpose set forth.

10. The combination of a pintled stopper, binding-wires O, constructedwith a simple hook or protuberance where they are attached to theneck-wire, and having a coil where they pass around the pintle, and aneck-wire, as andfor the purpose set forth- FREDERICK J. SEYBOLD.

XVit-nesses MARY R. GORTON, HENRY A- MoGINnLnv.

